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2017 Flash Contest Runner-up: Beth Bachmann’s Ursonate

by Black Warrior Review | Jun 12, 2018 | Feature, Fiction Print

I admire the confidence of this short and beguiling piece. The author sets in motion a tarot-spread of elements—the war, the wheel, the gold—and alchemizes a novelistic series of arrivals and reversals. The result is timeless, but, like a dream, it indicates a...

Local Spotlight: Interview with Dr. Hilary N. Green

by Black Warrior Review | May 31, 2018 | Feature, Interviews, Tuscaloosa

Dr. Hilary N. Green is an Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Gender and Race Studies and serves as the co-program director of the African American Studies program. She also has a partial appointment in American Studies. She earned her B.A. in History...

2017 Poetry Contest Runner-up: Noah Baldino

by Black Warrior Review | May 28, 2018 | Feature, Interviews

“The Parade is a searing and brilliant poem examining both the timeliness and timelessness of its subject matter. Here, the speaker presents us with anti-trans violence, an act so normalized and “unremarkable” a brutal moment of agreement is made: the hushed...

An Interview with Sarah María Medina – 2017 BWR Poetry Contest Winner

by Black Warrior Review | May 24, 2018 | Feature, Interviews

Sarah María Medina is a poet and a fiction/creative non-fiction writer from the American Northwest. Her writing has been published in Prelude, Poetry NW, Split This Rock, Raspa Literary Journal, and elsewhere. Her work is forthcoming in two anthologies: Nepantla: An...

2018 Contest: Interview with Flash Judge Jennifer S. Cheng

by Black Warrior Review | May 20, 2018 | Feature, Interviews

Jennifer S. Cheng’s work includes poetry, lyric essay, and image-text forms. Her debut book, HOUSE A (2016), was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize, and her forthcoming hybrid collection, MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems (May 2018), was...

2017 Fiction Contest Runner-up: TABOO by Ruth Mukwana

by Black Warrior Review | May 16, 2018 | Feature

“Taboo” immediately gives us a connection to the narrator: visceral and particular descriptions of a boy in a refugee camp. The story—the characters in their situation—never wavers in its assurance. The writer very economically sets up a series of very human...